PTC expands education initiative in India

Reinforcing its commitment to nurturing talent to meet the growing challenges of
the manufacturing, automotive, aerospace and defence segments, PTC announced the
enrichment of its education initiative in India. The company is rapidly
expanding its education network beyond the 425 educational institutions in India
it currently covers, with a comprehensive bundling of design software and
teaching resources to address the complete requirements of product lifecycle
management.

“With India's emergence as a destination for engineering design and
product development, there is a compelling need for trained manpower that can
leverage best in class solutions for design and collaboration to ensure quicker
time to market. The PTC education program leverages 20 years of experience in
providing the global manufacturing industry with the right product development
technology, and arms students with knowledge that makes them industry ready from
graduation day,” said Viswanathan Natarajan, Area VP, PTC.

As part of this initiative PTC will provide technical and engineering
institutes as well as schools the licenses of Pro/Engineer-a company's
industry leading solution for computer aided design, engineering and
manufacturing. In addition, faculty training, instructional materials and other
resources will benefit both educators and the student community. PTC will also
offer select institutions its industry leading product lifecycle management
solution Windchill, and enterprise content management solution Arbortext. PTC is
also offering tailor made modules for polytechnic institutes.

Around 2,000 teachers and 48,000 students are currently enrolled in PTC's
education initiative in India. With the expansion of the education initiative,
PTC is hoping to get more students involved in 'Product Design Engineering'
and not just design engineering.